Suction washing device.



F. A. WOLF.

SUCTION WASHING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 23, mm.

Patented 0011.27, 1914.

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SUCTION WASHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2'7, 1914.1

Application filed May 23,1914. Serial No. 840407.

To all whom it may concern l te it known that I, FRED A. WOLF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suction lVash- .ing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in washing devices of the class commonly known as hand operated suction washers, in which the device is operated by moving it vertically in a vessel containing clothingand a washing element.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple device for effectively cleansing clothing, by forcing the cleansing liquid through the clothing while contained in the receptacle, and it is my intention more particularly to provide a device in which the soap foam on the surface of the water will more surely be forced through the clothing instead of allowing it to lie on the surface while the water only is forced through said clothing.

To this end I have devised a plurality of funnel members,so arranged that when a downward movement of the device is made, the soap foam on the waters surface will be drawn up between two of the funnel members and forced down through the in nor or smaller funnel member.

The invention is more fully described in the following specification and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which represents a central, vertical sectional view of my device.

In the drawingthe numeral 1 designates a tubular member, formed at its lower extremity with an outwardly flaring end or funnel, 2, and provided with a closure for its upper end in the form of an ope "ating handle, This tube is formed, at a point some distance above its lower end, with a series of perforations 4. To the outer surface of this tube, slightly above the line of perforations 4, I attach, by means of solder or other simple means, a comparatively large funnel member 5, in inverted position, and whose lower edge lies on a plane slightly above that of the smaller central funnel 2.

The numeral (3 designates a second, relativel y large funnel member, attached in like manner to the central tubular member 1, at a point below the line of perforations 4:, thus providing an open passageway for the liquid, upwardly between thetwo larger.

funnels and downwardly through the central tube, when the device is moved in one direction, and in the reverse direction when the device is moved in the opposite directron.

When the device is placed on the surface of the water containing the soap foam, the inner smaller funnel 2 will contact with the water reaches it, and, inasmuch as the lower one of the large funnels 6, being closed at its top, forms an air cushion therein, the soap foam and water will be forced upwardly between the two large funnels as indicated by the arrow a, through the perforations 4, and down the tubular member 1, while the continued downward movement of the device will force the said soap foam and water through the clothing. The upward movement of the device, will, of course, reverse the movement of the water, that is, it will pass up through the central tube and down through the space between the two larger funnel members.

It is evident that with my device, the cleansing action is facilitated, inasmuch as the essential portion of the cleansing element, namely the soap, will be drawn up into the funnel and forced through the clothing, thus obtaining the maximum benelit of the cleansing element.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

In a device of the character described, a tubular member formed with a flaring lower extremity, and having a closure for its up per end and a series of perforations in its vertical wall; an inverted funnel shaped member whose contracted end is attached to said tubular member at a point above the perforations and having its flaring. end above the plane of that of the lower end of the flared tube; a second funnel shaped member whose contracted end is attached to surface before the outer funnel said tube at a point below the perforations, In testimony whereof I my signature and having its flaring end depending below in presence 01 two wltnesses.

the flaring end. 0]": the central tube, whereby FRED A. WOLF. a circulation of liquid may be maintained Witnesses:

through said tube and between said funnels ED. A. KELLY,

when said device is moved vertically. CLARAE. YOUNG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." 

